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It seems like every time you turn around, there's another
newfangled cell phone on the market. But what do you do
with your current phone if you switch carriers and get stuck
with a phone or upgrade to a newer model? How about make
money from it?
"CellForCash.com
is a website where consumers and businesses can get value
out of their old cell phones if they're not using it,"
said James Mosieur of CellForCash.com.
The
Ocala-based company buys thousands of used cell phones a
month and pays consumers cold hard cash for them.
"There
are phones out there that have a lower value -- three, four,
five, ten dollars -- but there are ones that go as high
as $200," said Mosieur.
How
do you get dollars for phones you no longer dial? Simple.
Log onto CellForCash.com,
find your model, then CellForCash.com takes it from there.
"We
send the box with a prepaid label, they drop the cell phone
in the box," said Mosieur. "It comes back to us.
We test it, verify to make sure it is what they said it
was, and 30 days later, we send them a check."
For
example, CellForCash.com
will pay you just under $100 for the Nokia 6620.
Ed
Kissell's Boca Raton company MobileSource also buys unwanted
cell phones that still work. He says there are a number
of ways he can save consumers money.
"A
kid will lose a phone, or maybe it fell in the pool or whatever,"
said Kissell. "So they come in here, and we will sell
them a phone for $30, $40, $50, and the parents are very
happy about that."
And
because MobileSource buys barely-used phones from the phone
companies and other businesses, he can also upgrade you
to the latest technology at a deep discount.
"And
what I can do, in turn, is offer them almost a brand-new
phone for a lot less money than the price of a new phone,
and you wouldn't know the difference," said Kissell.
And
for a small flat fee, these companies will reprogram your
phone to work on any cellular network.
So,
what else do both companies do with those pre-owned mobile
phones they buy? Many of them get a new ring on life in
other countries, particularly in South America.
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